Donna Lee Van Cott List:

After a decade in local office, are indigenous peoples' governments in the Andes fulfilling their promise to provide a more participatory, accountable, and deliberative form of democracy? Using curren...

Based on extensive original research and detailed historical case studies, this book links historical institutional analysis and social movement theory to a study of political systems in which new eth...

Based on interviews with more than 100 participants, Van Cott demonstrates how social issues were placed on the constitutional reform agenda and transformed into the nation’s highest law. She follow...

Since the conquest, indigenous communities throughout Latin American have endured with astonishing restraint a multitude of impositions and indignities. Occasionally that restraint has been punctuated...

Social movement-political party relations are an increasingly pertinent phenomenon, not just in Latin America but also in peripheral parts of Europe, countries in the Middle East affected by the Arab ...